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Re: Staff Directory on Web


From: "Foss, Henry L." <fossh () SACREDHEART EDU>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 19:11:51 +0000

We strip display names from non-university domains. So fraudsters trying to disguise themselves as university employees 
- sending from a Gmail address, or example - end up being revealed as their sender name. And we also embed a yellow 
banner and warning that the sender is external.

We make this part of our new hire training also so word gets out to the user community.

-Hank

From: The EDUCAUSE Security Community Group Listserv <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU> On Behalf Of Lovaas,Steven
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2021 2:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Staff Directory on Web

For those of you who have closed off faculty/staff directories (or moved to requiring authentication to see them), I'd 
be interested in hearing how you provide for boot-strapping contact needs like:

  *   Community members/press/others wanting to ask an expert
  *   Faculty of other institutions wanting to initiate collaboration
  *   Potential grad students wanting to explore faculty advisors
Thanks,
Steve

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Steven Lovaas
Chief Information Security Officer
Colorado State University - Fort Collins and CSU System
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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Staff Directory on Web

We did have our directory available publicly at one time but since then we require authentication to view and search. 
We did this for the obvious reasons as you have noted.

Jim

On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 1:56 PM Barton, Robert W. <bartonrt () lewisu edu<mailto:bartonrt () lewisu edu>> wrote:
Afternoon,

There is a little debate going here on IF our directory of employees (name, number, email, department) should be 
available to the web.  One side looks at it as we are being transparent, and it is good "marketing".  The other side is 
looking at it like we are releasing to much information (making it easier for a hacker to find targets) and making it 
easy for SPAMers.  Has anybody had this conversation before?  Anybody have an article that says one or the other?

As I search around, I'm seeing colleges/universities that go both ways.

Robert W. Barton
Executive Director of Information Security & Policy
Lewis University
1 University Parkway
Romeoville, IL  60446-2200
815-836-5663

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